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Hugh C. Atkinson graduated from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. He was known for his innovations in library automation and cooperation.
He served as director of libraries at Ohio State University from 1971 to 1976 and played a seminal role in the creation of one of the first online library circulation systems, the Library Circulation System (LCS).
Hugh was director of libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1976 to 1986 and oversaw the creation of the Illinois LCS network.
The Association of College and Research Libraries honors the life and accomplishments of Hugh C. Atkinson with the annual Hugh C. Atkinson Award recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of an academic librarian or group of librarians who has or have worked in the areas of library automation or library management and has made contributions (including risk taking) toward the improvement of library services or to library development or research.
In 1999, American Libraries named Hugh C. Atkinson as one of the 20th century's 100 most important leaders in librarianship.
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